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(excerpts from History of Linn County,
Mo., 1882. Compiler
unknown.)
page 402 “The first settler on the town
site was Colonel John Holland, who came from Virginia
to Linn County in the early spring of the
year 1834, and located his claim on the section whereon the capital of the
county now stands.”
page 404 “Up to 1847, however, ten years after the
establishment of the seat of justice, the following persons had either been
residents of the place or property owners therein:”
page 405 finds the following
‘verbatim’ name listing:
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E. T. Denison
Charles
F. Gibbs
Beverly
B. Estes
Mathew
Dale
John
Shepherd
Alexander
Ogan
James
Pendleton
Joseph
Auberry
Lyman
Stearnes
James
Carson
Robert
W. Holland
Marshall
Harrison
James
C. Connelly
Elkanah Bounds
Samuel
D. Sandusky
Wesley
Halliburton
Elizabeth
Flournoy
David
P. Woodruff
William
Saunders
William
B. Woodruff
Henry
T. Grill
B.
Philbert
Kenneth
A. Newton
William
Bowyer
John
Walkup
Beverly
Nece
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Artemas V. Nece
William
R. Smith
Martha
A. Boisseau
Hezekiah
E. Sutton
John
J. Flood
George
W. Smith
M.
H. Williams
Jacob
E. Quick
William
Harrison
Henry
T. Brown
James
Reid
Henry
Wilkinson
William
M. Long
William
Murrain,
A.
D. Rawlins,
Benjamin
Russell,
R.
W. Foster,
Irwin
Ogan,
Samuel
Iles,
John
McClintock,
Bolding
R. Ashbrook,
Jackson
Flournoy,
Susan Lane,
John
Phillips,
Elijah
Kemper,
William
Clarkson,
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Meredith Brown,
Ennis
Reid,
H.
H. Gibson,
H.
E. Hurlbut,
John
T. Stockard,
John
B. Relph,
Benjamin
Prewitt,
Edward
Hoyle,
R.
J. Menifee,
T.
T. Easley,
John
U. Parsons,
John
Barr,
James
Davis,
Joseph
Phelps,
Dr.
James Bell,
Dennett
Phillips,
Charles
Bodie,
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Giten,
Samuel
Bell,
John Lane,
____Buck,
John
Pullis,
Samuel
Pullis,
John
Bell,
___Alexander,
Colonel
William H. Moberly
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Page
406 ”....
March 7, 1845 …. And it is further
ordered that John G. Flourney, Edward Hoyle,
Alexander Carroll, Marshall Harrison, and William M. Long be and they are
hereby appointed trustees of said town, as aforesaid, to hold their offices
respectively until their successors are elected and qualified.”
(Spelling correction(s), brought to
C.C. attention by Harlie Gallatin, descendant of
Meredith Brown, have been ‘proofed’, and twelve (12) misspelled surnames
have been appropriately adjusted by current County Coordinator,
KK Fitch on 01 April 2007.)
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